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Apparently, all it took was one really dedicated, really skilled hacker to take out a vast swath of the Internet, including this website and all the other websites hosted on my domain.  That man was an Anonymous-affiliated hacker named AnonymousOwn3r, and his target was GoDaddy.  A hacker knocked GoDaddy offline completely, taking down 48 million […]

Serena Williams, for all her faults, is having a great season.  So is Victoria Azarenka, for that matter.  Azarenka is the world’s number one player and she won the Australian Open to kick off the season, but since then it’s been the Serena Williams show.  Serena Williams bested Victoria Azarenka in a hard fought, three-set […]

Four years ago, the federal government saved American International Group (AIG), a conglomerate of various insurance services and annuities groups.  AIG was one of the leading lights of the financial industry at the time, and one of the Ig Nobel Prize winners who kicked off the current financial crisis.  That bail out was successful, as […]

The bloom is off the rose at The Tonight Show.  While NBC’s late-night talk show still makes money and is the ratings winner among all the competition, it’s not what it once was.  The host change, the screwing over of Conan O’Brien, all that stuff has negatively impacted the show’s ability to draw advertisers, hence […]

A certified NBA legend, no player did more personal damage to the New York Knicks on the court than Reggie Miller of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.  At times, it seemed like he made it his personal mission to tear Spike Lee’s heart out and step on it, and he did so with relish as one […]

The first outing of Roger Clemens’ return to professional baseball at age 50 was surprisingly successful, so Clemens agreed for a second go-round with the Sugarland Skeeters.  With his son Koby behind the plate as his backstop, Roger Clemens threw 4 2/3 scoreless innings, throwing 33 strikes in 52 pitches and giving up only 2 […]

It’s not every day that comedy royalty gets married.  She’s the funny woman from Saturday Night Live‘s most recent glory period, and he’s the smarmy Gob Bluth of Arrested Development fame (and Jack Donaghy’s nemesis Devin Banks from 30 Rock).  When you talk about comedy power couples, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler were definitely that. […]

Drunk and belligerent, Johna Turner refused to leave the home of a man she was having a domestic dispute with.  She couldn’t leave, because she wanted to take her dogs with her.  The police were called to the scene in Longmont, Colorado, where a witness told the police officer who showed up on the scene to […]

Since the Amazon Kindle tablet was launched in 2011, it has become a very important part of the Amazon plan for control of your entertainment life.  Perhaps more importantly, it has proven to be a huge success for Amazon.  Kindle e-books are outselling standard books, and the Amazon Kindle Fire has sold roughly 5 million […]

Bank robberies happen every day in the United States, but none are quite as spectacular as one that happened early Wednesday morning in Los Angeles.  Two masked men with guns kidnapped the manager on Tuesday night, held her captive overnight, and when the Bank of America branch she managed opened on Wednesday morning, they sent […]

When it comes to politics, there’s no limit to the weirdness that comes with the territory of running for President.  For example, tax returns.  In real life, nobody cares about your tax returns; however, in the political world, tax returns are apparently super important.  For example, Mitt Romney has only released two years worth of tax information, […]

In 1990, a man named Robert Kosilek shot and killed his wife Cheryl.  He was sentenced to spend the rest of his natural life in prison in Norfolk, Massachusetts.  Somewhere along the line, he was diagnosed with gender identity disorder and sued the Massachusetts Departmen of Corrections for treatment of his disorder, which includes a […]

In rural Boone County, 92-year-old Earl Jones maintains a massive farm in an isolated part of the state of Kentucky.  He’s lived on this farm since 1955, and has lived by himself since 2006 when his wife Virginia Pearl passed away.  Indeed, being so far out in the country has left him a target for […]

There’s nothing quite like a trans-continental flight.  No matter who you are, there are much better things to be done with your time than fly across country.  These days, security is at an all-time high, and people are getting kicked off of flights for any number of reasons, from your iPhone games to your tattoos.  The […]

When it comes to Labor Day cookouts, one casino took it to an extreme.  So extreme, in fact, they shattered a Guinness World Record in the process.  At the Black Bear Casino Resort in Carlton, Minnesota, casino workers spent most of Sunday cooking over a giant grill.  What were they preparing?  A feast fit for […]